Prominent aristocrats like Carrion Feeder, Falkenrath Aristocrat, and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King become quite large as a result of their sacrificing abilities
The Guildgates offer a nice bridge that gives each guild pairing access to eight dual landsgranted, not as high quality as we might be used to, but functional nonetheless
It's temping to imagine scenarios where you bounce a creature with an "enters" trigger or help a creature dodge removal, but this is mostly just an awkward bounce spell
We played this deck a bit, and while it was good on both the combo and midrange axes, there was an aspect to this new blue-white build that intrigued me even more: the artifact payoff cards
The gap becomes clear at RR and above, with Japanese cards showing deeper texture embossing, finer holographic patterns, and more consistent centering
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